A Fat Beaver Got Stuck In A Fence, Luckily Rescuers Had The Perfect ‘Tool’ To Save Him

Very few of us get the exercise we need during winter months.

Sure, some hardy folks are out there in sleet, snow and ice trodding along with their Fitbits flashing off numbers.

The rest of us are indoors eating and drinking and staying warm…knowing all the while we’ll be horrified when we step on the scale come spring.

And it’s not just us humans that put on a few when we slow down for the winter.

Most animals that don’t have to work hard scavenging for food tend to stay in their dens and snack out of their “pantry” til the weather gets better.

That’s almost certainly what happened to one portly Canadian beaver who found himself in quite a predicament:

Animal rescuers in Ontario, Canada were called out when someone found a beaver that had tried to go through a fence…and failed miserably.

Well, it wasn’t a total fail. The first half of him made it through the bars of the fence, but his hips just wouldn’t quite slide through.

So, there he hung. In pain, fear, and I’m sure a bit of embarrassment as well.

The City of Hamilton Animal Services Facebook page made a post detailing the efforts to get the tubby beaver free from the bars.

It wasn’t a simple feat, but Officer Sarah remembered that we can use soap to remove rings from fingers. Perhaps it would work here as well…?

It did, and the beaver slipped through the bars to safety!

He didn’t come through unscathed, though; he had some minor injuries, which required him to spend a few days in the hospital.

Since he wasn’t ready to be released back into the wild, he was taken to the Hobbitstee Wildlife Refuge instead.

There he was treated to some rest, relaxation, and a complimentary all-you-can-eat veggie buffet!

By that point, he may have decided that getting stuck really hadn’t been such a bad thing after all.

Furthermore, because he was in obvious need of a little exercise, they fixed it so he was able to swim around to burn off some energy and excess calories.

With such great accommodations, it didn’t take long before he was ready to be taken back home. Rescuers said they figured the scare probably gave him something to think about.

Probably something along the lines of:

“I have a family and I want to live to see my son build his first dam.

This was exactly the kind of wake up call I needed.” 😉

And, as the Hamilton Animal Services team put it, he also got “a stern lecture about staying close to his aquatic home.”

We hope he listened!

Source: Epoch Times